Amateur photography (b/w & color), forest preserves, new people, rain, thunderstorms, fall, winter, organic foods, coffee, museums, paintings, cynicism, horror films, jeffrey dahmer, albert fish, ted bundy, ed gein, charles manson, jack the ripper, andrei chikatilo, gary heidnik, anatoly onoprienko, the zodiac killer, edmund kemper III, nico claux, btk strangler,crispin glover, comic books, jack daniels, video games, psychology, christopher walken, collecting random weird oddities, quotes, sleeping in, sarcasm, b & w films, reactions, humor, inside jokes, klondike bars, post-it-notes, dreaming, creative thinking, surrealism, ice cream, documentaries on serial killers, clickum pens, british tv, classic cars, monty python, slasher films, German expressionism and German expressionist crime tactics but really they go hand in hand, Schiele's sketches, the one and only French Theatre of horror, good lighting, b-movie villains, espionage tactics, forensic intrigue, discommodious situations, sheepish fops, late night shows, sardonic humor, esoteric exploits, skeleton keys, messages penned in invisible ink, ornate music boxes, solipsistic sonorousness, dark alleys, rare refractory resplendency, pseudoscientific jargon, obtuse logic, overcast twilight hours, a plethora of well placed mirrors in all the right situations, vintage sideshow art, silent cinema soundscores, Ellen Von Unwerth's fantasies...you know the ones, heavy fog and weathered cobblestone streets, etymological oddities, malevolent trickery, whimsical games with words, Weimar era Berlin especially all of the imagery associated with that festive period, impetus to dream, Jan Svankmajer vignettes, overgrown ivy on mossy dark red brick facades, conspiracy theories, eccentricity with a certain elegance, metaphoric streams of thought, dastardly deeds accomplished efficiently, Fritz Lang's sets, bourgeois bohemian get-togethers, sideways stares, salacious imagery, seemingly innocent schadenfreude bawdy language flickering candles behind tulle swanky surroundings, anarchist accordion players who will follow me around and play their duets at all the appropriate times, ice cream, music, ice skating, biographies, thunderstorms (yes i love thunderstorms that much that i mention it twice), and blah blah blah, I could probably go on forever, but I won’t.
Music
Front 242,Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Rammstein, Skinny Puppy, Stabbing Westward, Static-X, Dead Can Dance, Switchblade Symphony, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Type O Negative, Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, Slayer, Fear Factory, The Clash, The Misfits, Dead Kennedys, X-ray Spex, The Cars, The Who, The Vibrators, The Queers, Vice Squad, Devo, The Undertones, 2nd Hand Justice, The Varukers, New York Dolls, The Notsensibles, The Dickies, Don Henley, Death March, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Adolescents, The Voids, Leftover Crack, China White, The Weirdos, Weezer, The Adicts, Jefferson Airplane (without starship hehe..), [SUB][HUM][ANS], The Beatles (of course), Queen, The Avengers, Duran Duran, Anti-Pasti, Narcoleptic Youth, Generation X, Depeche Mode, Clit 45, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Chuck Berry, The Strokes, Oingo Boingo, Social Distortion, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Morrissey (older stuff), Cheap Sex, Minor Threat, Danny Elfman, The Jam, The Cure (old stuff...their new music sucks), Billy Talent, Buddy Holly, The Skulls, Johnny Rivers, The Scorpions, Sado Nation, S.T.U.N., Malice Mizer, Camp Kill Yourself (CKY), Nine Inch Nails, Plasmatics, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Star Spangles, AC/DC, Blur, Echo and the Bunnymen, Radiohead, Berlin, Dead or Alive, Strawberry Alarm Clocks, Fugazi, Nirvana, 999, The Knack, The Kinks, UFO, Coldplay, Charge 69, The Faint, Bjork, T.S.O.L., The Violators, The Zombies, The Ramones, Lydia Lunch, Interpol, The Zeros, Suburban Lawns, AFI (old stuff), Foreigner, Dimmu Borgir, New Order, INXS, Toy Dolls, Sonic Youth, Blue Oyster Cult, X, Frank Sinatra, some Rolling Stones, The Hollies, The Ruts, Eddie and the Hot Rods, David Bowie, Penetration, The Monkeys, The Virus, The Replacements, The Damned, Flying Lizards, The Distillers, Orgy, Blondie, Pat Benetar, Garbage, Fear, The Psychedelic Furs, Tears for Fears, Starshooter, Descendents, Sublime, Coal Chamber, The Minutemen, Bad Religion (older stuff), The Pretenders, The Lurkers, The Partisans, Stone Temple Pilots, Marilyn Manson, Agent Orange, Operation Ivy, Circle Jerks, Rudimentary Peni, Rezillos, Talking Heads, The Eagles, Nina Simone, The Specials, John Lennon, Cress, Aus-Rotten, GBH, The Unseen, Joan Jett, RATT, 45 Grave, Toltshock, GG Allin, Chaos UK, The Rentals, Deep Purple, Joy Division, Total Chaos, The Living End, A Flock of Seagulls, The Lemonheads, Sham 69, Crass, Greenday, The Runaways, The Doll, Jules and the Polar Bears, Fine Young Cannibals, The Guess Who, Killing Joke, The Slits, Action Pact, Suburban Studs, Billy Idol, Johnny Cash, Prince, The Dead Boys, Dils, Modern English, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, The Adverts, The Devotchkas, The Pissants, Fatal Microbes, Stiff Little Fingers, The Hippos, Oi Polloi, The Turtles, The Hives, Cheap Trick, The Germs, Stray Cats, The Lewd, Major Accident, The Violent Femmes, The Vandals, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, 36 crazyfists, scarling, slipknot, sugarcoma, veruca salt, deftones, anybody killa, orgy, earshot, assemledge23, mudvayne, finger eleven, kill hannah, curbjaw, shrowd, sixthgate, kovenant, cult of luna, twisted method, a perfect circle, tool, placebo, drain sth, muse, system of a down, burnt by the sun, mindless self indulgence, hatebreed, social disortion, dope, powerman5000, cold, silverchair, lacuna coil, depeche mode, devildriver, from autumn to ashes, my chemical romance, murderdolls, joy division, greenday, smashing pumpkins, poison the well, adema, thrice, birthday massacre, ill nino, dying fetus, sublime, finch, killswitch engage,40 below summer, type o negative, zeromancer, anathema, kidney thieves, disturbed, apoptygma berzerk, atreyu, avenged sevenfold, cruxshadows, diva destruction, hole, drowning pool, garbage, lollipop lust kill, london after midnight, rammstein, static-x, taproot, velvet acid christ, VNV nation, jumpsuit,
The Doors, GunsNRoses, Jimi Hendrix, KMFDM, Jack Off Jill, My RuiN, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mortiis, Misfits, Immortal Fear Cult, Bella Morte, Covenant, The dark violence of Beauty Gropius, NIN, Tool Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Skinny Puppy, Spineshank, Tragic Awakening, The Fall of Troy, Coheed and Cambria, Powerman 5000,Project 86, Dawn Of Darkness, dark lotus, Chimaira, Daylight Dies, Dark Tranquillity, Insomnium, Arch Enemy, Ablaze My Sorrow, At the Gates, Ebony Tears, Hypocrisy, unanimated, Death, Callenish Circle, November's Doom, Forest Stream, Edge of Sanity, Pentagram, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Omnium Gatherium, Theatre of Tragedy, Nevermore, Agalloch, Gorgoroth, Crisis, Bathory, Carcass, Green Carnation, Lord Belial, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Immortal, Ephel Duath, Fragments of Unbecoming, In Flames, Old Man's Child, Darkane, Without Face, The Haunted, face down, Satyricon, Possessed, Rakoth,Lake of Tears, garden of shadows, Morbid Angel, Opeth, dew-scented, Children of Bodom, eternal lies, Lunaris, Autumn Tears, Anata,Nile, Dead Heart Bleeding, paradise lost, blind guardin, dissection, amon amarth, amorphis, soilwork, darkest hour, Longwinter's Stare, Ulver, The Crown, shadows fall, meshuggah, all out war, sinergy, flaw, Shenoah, Metallica(old), church of misery, andromeda, Dead Even, drowning pool, ac/dc, vexen, velvet revolver, HIM, soulfly, black label society, fear factory, god forbid, unearth, himsa, stampin ground, Tori Amos, Hungry Lucy, Frente!, Ani Difranco, Boa, Diamanda Galas, Fischerspooner, Die Krupps, Aphex Twin (particularly the select ambient tracks), Motley Crue, Take As Needed, Equilibrium, Level, Scull Soup, The Goodies, Crank County Daredevils, Dirty Box, Semi Pro , Agathodaimon, old Suicidal Tendencies, Carcass, Cro-Mags, Sinergy, Crisis, Sins of Thy Beloved, Garden of Shadows, Motorhead, Hate Eternal, Impetigo, Nuclear Death, Nuclear Assault, Kreator, Machetazo, Merlin, Usurper, Wykked Wytch, Sinister, Sargatanas, Vader, Devil Kit, Acheron, Malignancy, Funerus, Derketa, Mythic, Obituary, Enslaved, Akercocke, old Biohazard, old Agnostic Front, old Sick of it All, Minor Threat, Black Flag (Henry Rollins), Immolation, Elend, Garden of Shadows, the Missing, Darling Demoniac, Mors Syphilitica, Betty Blowtorch, old Sigh, Naglfar, L7, Krisiun, Rademassaker, Decomposed, Head Trauma, Poison Idea, AC/DC, Immortal Flesh, Through the Discipline, Darkthrone, Carpathian Forest, The Black, Necro (D.R.), Merodac (DR), Killing Miranda, Seraphim Shock, Suffocation, Scar Culture, old Sentenced, , Bolt Thrower, Acid, Absu, Immortal, Dimmu Borgir, Sleep, Sodom, Hellion, Thorr's Hammer, Lord Gore, D.R.I., Haunted Garage, Radio Werewolf, Disembowelment, Acid Death, Neither/Neither World, old Obituary, old Savatage, Tiamat, Enchantment, Internal Bleeding, Funeral Oration, Chorozon, Toxic Reasons, Mangled, Mortiis, the black dahila murder, every time i die, and Pantera.
Movies
All Stanley Kubrick movies, Interview with a Vampire, The Thing (1982), The Alien Quadrilogy (i did NOT like AvP too much), Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jungle Holocaust, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2, The Crow, Cannibal Holocaust, Bowling for Columbine, Young Frankenstein, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tombstone, The Exorcist, Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Ghostbusters, Old Horror Movies, Zombie Movies, Cheesy 80's Movies, Some Like It Hot, Benny and Joon, Donnie Darko, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Return of the Living Dead, Sid and Nancy, Leatherface: TCM 3, Carrie, Hellraiser, Evil Dead, Willard (actually really anything with Crispin Glover in it), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Birds (anything by alfred hitchcock), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 , Taxi Driver, The Lost Boys, Edward Scissorhands, Wet Hot American Summer, South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut, Psycho Beach Party, Coneheads, Falling Like This, Night of the Comet, Elephant, Office Space, The Clash of the Titans, Batman (1966 and 1989 versions), Caddyshack, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Wayne's World 1 &2, The Goonies, Ghost World, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Monty Python the Meaning of Life, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Where the Heart Is, Leon, Bartleby, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 version), Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, Better Off Dead, Billy Madison, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, SLC Punk, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wedding Singer, Romey and Michelles HS Reunion, The Poltergeist, Christmas Vacation, Jackass, Red Dragon, Revenge of the Nerds, Weird Science, The Blob, James and the Giant Peach, Zoolander, American Beauty, The Road to Perdition, Spirited Away, Requiem For a Dream, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Amelie, Princess Mononoke, High Art, The Princess Bride, Shrek, Shrek II, Harold and Maude, Lain Serial Experiments, Mulan, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Grinch, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (highly recommended), What Dreams May Come, Run Lola Run, Like Water For Chocolate, Bound, The Craft, The Ring, Ringu, all Angelina Jolie movies, Lost and Dilerious, Bound, High Art, Body of Evidence, any Gina Gershon movie, House on the Haunted Hill (old version with Vincent Price [all his movies too]), What Lies Beneath, Witches of Eastwick, Vampire Princess Miyu, Pirates of the Carribean, Adams Family, Basquiat, Emile, Gumo, Pi, A Beautiful Mind, Reservoir Dogs, Headwig, To Wong Fu Thanks For Everything, Percila Queen of the Desert, Raise the Red Lantern, Oh My Goddess, Prey for Rock and Roll, Master and Commander, The Net, High crimes, house of 1000 corpses, the cradle of fear, Alice In Acidland, saw, lord of the rings, the matrix, Samurai X, star wars, faces of death, Queen Of The Damned, halloween, scream, scary movie, saving private ryan. Pitch black (first part only). big fish, FROM HELL, nightmare on elm street. THE GLASS HOUSE. the haunting. THE CELL. blair witch. MERLIN. mists of avalon. matchstick men. identity. bill and ted's excellent adventure. GOTHIKA. scarface. GODFATHER. monster. count of monte cristo. the league of extraordinary gentlemen. X-MEN . man on fire,johhy depp movies, 'The Shining' 'Stephen King's The Shining' Pet Cementary' Silver Bullet' The Dark Half' 'Monkey Shines' The Amityville Horror' Nosferatu - Special Edition' 'The Phantom of the Opera - The Ultimate Edition (1925 Original Version and 1929 Restored Version)' 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' 'The Invisible Man' 'The Mummy, Phantom of the Opera, the outsiders, 'Vampyr, Dracula, From Dusk Till Dawn, vanilla sky, memento, suburbia, a bronx tale, heathers, 1984, saturday the 14th, swingers, dark city, beetlejuice, evil dead, and gentlemen: the fabulous stains, party monster, Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, Kill Kill!, Dracula (w/Gary Oldman, w/ Bela Lugosi, w/Christopher Lee[Movies Directed by Dario Argento (Suspiria, Inferno), George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead), Mario Bava (I Vampiri, Diabolik), Roman Polanski(Macbeth), Lucio Fulci (Il Gatto Nero), Clive Barker.], Alice in Wonderland, Beavis & Butthead Do America, Kolobos, The Lodger, Shaun of the Dead, empire records, highway, joyride, slackers, mallrats, thirteen, breakfastclub, american history x, death becomes her, sleepy hollow, ……….and I can’t remember any more.
Television
The Simpsons, Southpark, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Family Guy, Tales from the Crypt, X-men (original), The Young Ones, Invader Zim, Jackass, Futurama, Case Closed, A & E, So Graham Norton, Lupin the 3rd, Conan O'Brian, Rockos Modern Life, The Daily Show, The Chappelle Show, Headbangers ball, Seinfield, Insomniac, WSoP, drew carey, snl, fuse, ourt tv, cops, harvey birdman, venture brothers,megas xlr, daul masters ,cheaters, reno 911 , dallas, motormouth, drawn together, the man show, carnivale, columbo, twin peaks, biography, trading spaces, american choppers, sopranos, animal cops, fire within, twilight zone, Mission Hill, Undergrads, Beavis and Butthead, Daria, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, The Addams Family, That 70's show, Law and Order: SVU, Dilbert, The Munsters, Duckman, Documentaries on serial killers, The Unit, Smith, My name is Earl.
Books
American Psycho, Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik, America's Most Bizarre Murderer: Edward Gein, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Unwanted, The Manhattan Hunt Club, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, The Homing, Nightshade, Portrait of a Killer Jack the Ripper Case Closed, Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, A Clockwork Orange, 30 Days of Night, eccentrically animated graphic novels, dark tales of fin de siecle tawdriness, historical fiction, torrid autobiographies, trashy Victorian accounts of dandies and aesthetes, Invisible Monsters, cunt, story of junk, carrion comfort, snow crash, notes from underground, the god of small things, written on the body, valencia, 100 years of solitude, junky, mists of avalon, neuromancer, Also Edgar Allen Poe poetry and stories. Most occult, true crime, classical literature, Fight club (yes, that’s right, it was a book before it was a movie and book 100 times better if you think that is even possible), Naked Lunch, oh..there is obviously a plethora of other categories and specific titles I could list but I don't think I have the energy to do such a thing...besides the fact that I highly doubt anyone has read this far and I have a sneaking suspicion that I am indeed writing to myself...hmmm...
Heroes
[sarcasm] what the hell is a hero? isn't this a sandwich? they're really good.
.....and now for FILLER I just wanted to share something with the "locals":
If you've ever lived in Jersey...
NJ is a peninsula snuggled in between the two armpits of philly and nyc.lol
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida. Which means we're closer to the smog
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas. That means "ghetto" (although, I think they should take a second look at Salem County)
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky. And Nard owns 70% of them
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq mi.) than Havana, Cuba. Yes, and they're all my friends.
New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US.
New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World."
New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club (no, not Spam): Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers and onions.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major ! shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius. Millcreek, Garden State, Willowbrook, Hudson, Bergen, Monmouth, paramus, jersey gardens, etc etc etc.
New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland. And home to the most mafia body dumpings
New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns; some of the nation's most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch, Cape May. "ahh sleezide"
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country. Bullshit.
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production (and here you thought Massachusetts?) I've never seen either taking place..
Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in America, opened in Hoboken. The birthplace of true alchoholics.
New Jersey rocks! The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah, in 1940. And future junkies
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80 percent of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark), Liberty International. Most recently ranked as the #1 WORST airport in the country to travel through.
George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ,
laboratory. Thomas Edison's house is bright pink. Enough said
We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs. And we never turn them off
The first seaplane was built in Keyport, NJ.
The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ. The city with the worst crime rate in the country..
New Jersey is home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City. Go back to NY Donald Trump.
The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on its playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.
And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
Not to mention salt water taffy.
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the
Middle East countries. ( right on 440 next to pathmark)
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung
Mountains. And now its a satanic ritual site...
New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. (Union, NJ)
New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City. Now completely abandoned and ready for exploration... unless they've already knocked it down.
The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway.And the absolute worst place to be driving any day of the week at any given time.
NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson (Holland Tunnel). Definately a bad place to make a wrong turn.
The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the
birthplace of Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra hated Hoboken, and New Jersey.
The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889 (Rutgers College played Princeton).
The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden, NJ, (but they're all gone now for obvious reasons).
New Jersey is home to both of "NEW YORK'S" pro football teams! The Jets are farts.
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ. Nelly got jumped shooting a music video in paterson for acting like a punk.
The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas Armstrong.
All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce
Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifah, Susan Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross,
Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnelly, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom Cruise, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Joe Piscopo, Robert Blake,
John Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm.Halsey,Jr., Dave Thomas (Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia and, of course, Francis Albert Sinatra and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino, Kell Ripa. ....and they all moved out.. (for obvious reasons)
Bob Meade adds: The Great Falls in Paterson, on the Passaic River, is
the second highest waterfall on the East Coast of the US. There's also a fire truck at the bottom of those falls.. ...
You know you're from Jersey when . . .
You don't think of fruit when people mention "The Oranges." And the highway sign actually says it that way too.
You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.
A good, quick breakfast is a hard roll with butter.
You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you can remember. ....good old parkway and over the bridge
You've eaten at a diner, when you were stoned or drunk, at 3 A.M. Half of the food I've ever eaten in my entire life was consumed in NJ diners.
You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery. No... but it is really dirty
At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen, and
you know the town Jon Bon Jovi is from.
You know what a "jug handle" is.
You know that WaWa is a convenience store. NYorkers say "WaWha?"
You know that the state isn't all farmland. Never is it...
You know that there are no "beaches" in New Jersey--there's the
shore--and you don't go "to the shore," you go "down the shore." And when you are there, you're not "at the shore"; you are "down the shore."
You know how to properly negotiate a circle.
You knew that the last sentence had to do with driving.
You know that a "White Castle" is the name of BOTH a fast food chain
AND a fast food sandwich.
You consider putting mayo on a corned beef sandwich a sacrilege.
You don't think "What exit?" is very funny.
You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different."
You know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton--that's for out-of-staters.
The Jets-Giants game has started fights at your school or localbar. You have no idea why people take that shit seriously
You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers. 3, 17, 46, 23, 1, 9, 440.....hell, you even refer to some ave's by their numbers......82, 28, 27, the list goes on and on.
(school) Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony.
You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening
credits.
You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the Willowbrook mall. Yea.. but you know they can ALL take you home anyway, so you're still good.
You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights, and
people from Central Jersey go to Belmar, and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood. It can be no other way.
You weren't raised in New Jersey--you were raised in either North
Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey. If you were raised in hudson county, thats a category all on its own.
You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.
You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel,
Bamberger's, Bradlees, Tops, R & S Straus, NOT Straus discount auto, Nationwide, and Orbach's. God bless you if you remember the Rickles on bergenline.
You also remember Palisades Amusement Park.
You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries. Followed by Kohrs ice cream. Orange and cream.
You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.
And finally . . .
You've NEVER, NEVER pumped your own gas. so only other state you can move to now is Oregon.
you know that the road to the shore is "The Parkway" not "The Garden State Highway."
You know that "Piney" isn't referring to a tree.
Even your old school cafeteria made good Italian subs and, you call it a "sub" not a "submarine sandwich" or worse yet, a "hoagy" or a "hero."
You remember the song from the Palisades Park commercials.
You know that "Acme" is an actual store, not just a Warner Bros creation.
You know that this is the only "New..." state that doesn't require "New" to identify it (like, try ...Mexico, ...York, ...Hampshire (doesn't work, does it?).
You only go to New York City for day trips, and you only call it "The City."
You know that the real first "strip shopping center" in the country is Route 22.
You live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls.
You can see the Manhattan skyline from some part of your town.
You also remember the Monster Bowl Skate Park that was in Seaside Hts.
You remember when the casinos had to close down for the first time,because Corzine wanted to raise the sales tax.
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You Know You're From South Jersey When...
In your mind you hear "watch out for the tram car please" even in your sleep.
You've had arguments over cheese steak quality.
When it snows more than an inch, you call it a blizzard
You've actually found the Echelon Mall.
You don't understand why there aren't more 24-hour diners elsewhere in the country.
You know what a Wawa is, and know the location of at least 15 of them.
One time you were driving in the woods and got stuck in sand.
Even though there's a new Wal-Mart in your town, you still go to the Berlin Farmers Market for cheap stuff.
You've counted the number of titty bars on the Black Horse Pike.
You know where to get the best bagel.
You've called someone an "asshole" to their face at the Philly airport.
You say "water" weird.
It's a "hoagie"...not a "sub"....
You've almost fallen asleep on the Atlantic City Expressway but you NEVER refer to it as such, just as "the expressway".
You have mandatory recycling. Enforced by law.
You don't have to go to Red Lobster to get fresh seafood. You've made a meal out of Tastycakes, Herr's BBQ potato chips, and Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer.
Down the road, in the middle of nowhere, is an Egyptian restaurant and a custard stand with a miniature golf course. You can go bowling at 1:30 A.M. (with automatic scoring)
Route 206 doesn't freak you out at night.
One time, a sea gull shit all over your head.
You once said, "It smells like Philadelphia in here."
You know it can be -10 degrees and 70 degrees in January in the same year.
There's a fruit and vegetable stand down the road.
You will always say "YO", and you'll say it often.
You scoff at tourists in Philadelphia.
You know that no matter how much they put into the Camden waterfront Camden is still Camden.
You have to mail your relocated friends tastycakes.
You think North Jersey is a different state and South Jersey deserves its own secession.
You know where Olga's Diner is on rt 70.
You drive by a farm every time you get in the car.
You know what "jimmies" are and refuse to call them anything else.
Your neighbor is either a painter, a plumber, a builder, or an electrician with a work truck in the driveway.
You have crossed all 5 bridges into Philly at one point in your life.
You take day trips to Philly to walk on South Street.
You have had a near or close call experiences hitting a deer with your car.
You run around in the nearest patch of woods and play paint ball with your buddies.
You call the Berlin Farmer's Market the Berlin Auction or the Auction.
Other people don't know what funnel cake and water ice is
You went "diner hopping" till the sun came up.
You don't acknowledge that it is tomorrow until either you go to sleep or the sun comes up.
You have empty Wawa half gallon iced tea bottles all over your car and room.
You've ever driven around aimlessly for hours with your friends saying "So, whatta we doing?"
The term "I think of you as a brother" turns into a whole family tree.
You drove all the way to the shore just to walk around for 5 minutes then drive back.
You've seen a shack with a satellite dish.
You know that a "Yield" sign is merely a suggestion.
Everything is "twenty minutes away" except shore areas: they're usually "an hour and twenty minutes." ...(BAcKROADS)...
You've intentionally stood in front of the tramcar, and you're upset that it no longer stutters.
You haven't moved out of state solely for the reason you know the food is that bad everywhere else.
You're astounded when a friend that moves tells you there's not a Wawa nor CVS within a 10 mile radius of them.
You would drop everything you were doing and run to the voting polls right now if you heard we were voting to make North and South Jersey separate states.
You've had a dinner with your friends for less than $3.
You know all of the "back roads" to get everywhere and prefer them to "the expressway"
You know what a "shoe-bie" is and can pick one out at the beach.
... You can brag of being in multiple car accidents and don't have a scratch on you...
You've gone 4x4ing in a recent snowstorm starting from the Atco Raceway and ending up at the Mullica River Marina in Batsto..
ever gone offroading to avoid a cop...
An adult has scolded u for calling an officer of the law a "cop"...(it's only "officer" if ur being pulled over)
U love to surf at LBI but u always wind up at OC.
U live right down the street from the renowned Clementon Lake Park but ur friends are shocked to know uve only been there once.
uve come up with ways to dodge buying "beach tags" and know that u don't have to cause they're total bullshit
Uve gone skimboarding in the woods at Atco cause there's snow on the ground...
Some of your closest friends are originally from countries, which are major exporters of illegal plant drugs...
You've gotten your jeep stuck up in a tree
You time how many minutes (not hrs.) it takes to get from your house to the bridge at 9th street in OC.
You cant put your email address on a Wawa job application because it would completely discredit you and any hopes you had of obtaining a job.
When driving to north jersey you and your friends panic cause its been twenty minutes and you haven't passed a Wawa "where the hell are we going to get food?"
You met your significant other in the parking lot at wawa
Every time you get lost or bored you end up at a random wawa parking lot just sitting there wondering what to do next
You've been pulled over by the cops in the middle of the woods.
The only thing that NJ Devils fans and NY Rangers fans can EVER agree on is that the PA Flyers suck.
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I have come to the conclusion that NO ONE READS BLOGS anymore. Or at least it seems that the explosion is becoming so overwhelming that it is passively being ignored. Now of course i am exaggerating with my statement, of course thousands of blogs are read a day, but the point is that now one has time to do all this shit: post your own blog, read other people's blogs, make comments about their blogs, etc, etc. It would take too long, and people need to work to earn their fucking money these days,
esp. since I've read that the social security "stash nest" will be empty by 2041 bumped down one year from 2042 in a report about 1 week ago. Fucking shit I'll be 63 by then, just barely fucking short to enjoy my fucking benefits. (i'm ranting again)
The point is that blogging is a time consuming job and anyone here can admit they simply don't have time to do all this SHIT. I do read many blogs when I can and comment on them, and I'll admit it's fucking time consuming as hell. I barely have time to read the biased New York Times anymore, and that's when I know things are getting bad.
Of course people are split right down the middle with this shit, just like the Terri Schiavo controversy, and many will be angry at me for making such claims that no one reads blogs, but once again, I don't mean it "literally".
NO ONE EVEN POSTS FUCKING COMMENTS ON MY BLOGS ANYMORE, and when they do it's like 2 or 3 comments from the same people. Of course it would be more sadening to know the absolutely no one reads my blogs, but luckily my statitical graph tells me that about a dozen people read them a week. Not too bad, but you must ask yourself: HOW MANY FUCKING PEOPLE HERE ON MYSPACE ACTUALLY WRITE COHERENT BLOGS WHERE THEY ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THEIR FUCKING LIVES INSTEAD OF POSTING ABSOLUTELY STUPID FUCKING SHIT LIKE "HOW SEXY ARE YOU: TAKE THE QUIZ!" [x] HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX UNDER A SINK? OR STUPID ONE LINER BLOGS THAT DON'T SAY SHIT: "I DON'T FEEL GOOD TODAY, I'M GOING TO SLEEP. i fucking swear, some of these people shouldn't write blogs at all. Ok fine, i'll try not to be a dictator, but seriously, i browse her on my space and hardly anyone says SHIT on their blogs. Dammit i'm pissed and ranting again, and wondering why the fuck am I writing all this shit. fucking ranting.
Well anyway, there are people who agree with me, and there will be people who disagree with me, but for now I will cite only those who agree with me (yes, i can be biased too, but at least I don't make shit up like the Times.)
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http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash&siteid=mktw&guid={4663DC17-6FFD-4863-9EF4-DEEFD4BD9284}&returnURL=/news/story.asp?guid={4663DC17-6FFD-4863-9EF4-DEEFD4BD9284}&siteid=mktw&dist=&archive=true¶m=archive&garden=&minisite=
Blogs: much ado about very little
By Frank Barnako, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 1:08 PM ET Oct. 15, 2004
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Excuse me for asking. But why has MSNBC's Keith Olbermann started a blog about politics? Almost no one reads them.
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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=73901
Posted by Vin Crosbie 7:03:25 PM
Bloggers Blew It: Much Posting, Little Impact
Let's gore a sacred cow. Or let's let Frank Barnako of CBS MarketWatch's Internet Daily do it. The headline above tops the commentary leading his report on Wednesday.
"No one reads blogs," Barnako writes. Yes, Technorati is tracking 4 million blogs, RSS is no longer "a geek secret and now it's a bolt-on to My Yahoo!", and Blogads claims to be delivering 100 million banner-ad impression per month. "All that may be true. It's just that after the presidential election, it appears to me that the only readers of blogs ... are bloggers! They are a good group. Educated and engaged. But they're also like mice in a rotating cage: running in place, bumping into the same old people." Examining Comscore's online traffic surveys, Barnako notes that "when the most popular political blog draws fewer than 270,000 visitors on Election Day, you've got to ask, 'What's the point?'"
Those are fighting words to blogger fundamentalists and might cause some a knee-jerk reaction to accuse Barnako of "not getting it" or perhaps of being a "big-media" guy simply because of the brand CBS behind his column. But Barnako gets it and has been for a long time. He's a blogger, a Web-publishing pioneer (who helped found USAToday.com and helped found Quincy Jones' World Music Web venture), and has been reporting for the CBS News radio network about online since before the Internet was opened to the public.
Barnako concludes, "Bottom line: Political blogging is like Ralph Nader. Nobody pays attention."
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http://www.larryborsato.com/blog/archives/000211.html
No one reads blogs.
Frank Barnako of CBS Marketwatch posted a rather harsh commentary suggesting that based on the impact of blogging on the election, the only people who read blogs are other bloggers. He then goes on to day that you can read more on his blog. Why bother if nobody is reading it?
I believe that blogging is merely in its infancy among society at large, and has already had tremendous impact, giving traditional media some competition. It will get better and more pervasive.
Posted by larry at November 3, 2004 01:58 PM | TrackBack
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(oh, there seems to be no fucking comments on this blog either. what a fucking surprise)
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http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2003/4/30/83302.html
I never was good at networking
by Suw Charman at 01:49PM (BST)
But I have suspected for sometime that the number of people who actually read blogs is considerably less the number of people writing them. Come on, we’ve all gone to Weblogs.com or somesuch, just to check if we’re on the list, but how many of those blogs do we actually read? Well I’m way too busy simultaneously carrying out three conversations on MSN, slapping scores of witty ripostes up on Sweet Addy in order to keep my postcount healthy, and replying to emails to do any work, let alone read any blogs.
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http://www.debbieweil.com/archives/2003/09/12/what_my_mother_says_about_blogging/index.php
WHAT MY MOTHER SAYS ABOUT BLOGGING
My mother is one of the smartest people I know. She is not, however, a fan of the Web or the Internet. To my knowledge, she's never read a single issue of my newsletter, WordBiz Report, for fear that her computer might get a virus should she open the email.
After reading yesterday's posts (which I alerted her to), she sent the following note: "Debbie, I enjoyed your piece on 9/11 and congratulations on getting mentioned in the Washington Post. To my dismay I got into your blogs and I can't imagine what a smart and capable person like you is doing engaging in this infantile and boring activity. love, mom."
Hmmm... well, I suppose anything your mother says to you has a grain of truth in it.
Mom, I hope you'll give blogging another chance. And I'll try not to be boring.
P.S. What do YOU think? Is blogging "infantile and boring"? C'mon, lemme have it. Don't hold back if that's what you're really thinking...
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http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/07/08/if_youre_reading_this_according_to_npr_you_are_no_one.html
If you're reading this, according to NPR you are "no one"
10:32 JST » Blogging about Blogging - Books - Media and Journalism
Scripting News"No one was listening," said the NPR...
"No one was listening," said the NPR announcer, as she introduced the guy who posted the note on Tuesday morning about the new Edwards decals on the Kerry campaign plane. No one was listening, except for the people who were.
Clearly no one reads blogs...
I'm going to be doing a Summer Reading Series interview for NPR this week. I should list all of the blogs people should read this summer. ;-)
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1- mr strauss @ September 3, 2004 10:21 AM
I normally like NPR. I must confess, however, that I don't feel like I fully understand what you were getting at here. Was this some sort of anti-blog piece that you heard on NPR, or what?
Cause if it was I swear I'll fucking go on a pro-blog rampage, knocking all kinds of shit over, and throwing shit all over everyone.
NAtional public radio my ass!!!
mr strauss
pop goes motherfucking lethal.
PGL
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http://www.numberonehitsong.com/archives/000070.html
Rude descending a staircase, part 2, OR Geezers need excitement
I know that no one reads blogs to find out what happened two days ago. It's akin to still caring about what Colin Farrell is up to. I'm a bit lax.
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http://kats.diaryland.com/031017_73.html
Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 : 9:50 P.M.
I've been having this feeling lately that no one reads blogs and diaries the same way anymore. The bloom is off. The spare room is saturated with words. There's enough babbling out there to null the most interested of minds; there's so much repetition and blankness and crud all smooshed together. I read in bite-size bits, hardly really concentrating; skimming like the water spider over the text, looking for ripples and perks. I think everyone does this. I don't really mind this sinking into the mud. It brings us all back to where we belong, scribbling into our notebooks. I like to think of my writing here as kind of similar to the notes we used to leave in high school on our desks. You'd write the lyric and wait, and wait. And maybe one day someone would write the refrain back. And you'd wonder who sat in your seat while you weren't there.
It's kind of the same thing.
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http://hub8.topcities.com/stuff/test.html
You know how no one reads blogs much let along the archives of them?
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http://noreadblog.blogspot.com/
NOBODY READS BLOGS
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Musn't let this world grow us cold..
One thing to be said to my fellow e-topians.
Dont let this world go cold on you.
its hard enough to get by with out love, that happens alot these days.
it can be alot harder to go by without even a freind.
So to all you e-tard's and e-tardet's this is my personal invitation for you to become my freind.
As for the ass hats that rule our lives..
We have to live in there world. But no one said they have to be in ours.
lets not let the internet go to waste like the real world has.
Theres a rare opportunity in the internet, and that is the ability to start over.
So to any one who hate's what this world has turned them into, it doesnt have to be this way. We can make the internet a great place to be. But it will take the efforts of ourselves to make it a warm freindly place to roam around in. So... go read some blogs, and meet some people. And never be to afraid to say hello
later foo
.:-=|P@tc..|=-:.
posted by MobBoss(TX) @ 10:32 PM 4 comments
Monday, June 21, 2004
post..
(my impression of the entire blogging community)
type type type...
please dear christ some one recognize that i too, exist.
internet is a lonley place to call existence.
id bet god dig's the internet.
he might be your best freind in the e-world, and you'd never know.
thats what the internet affords you, the ability to be completly anounamous.
i bet famous people spend alot of time on the internet..
or doing cocaine, cuz i heard famous people do alot of that too.
posted by MobBoss(TX) @ 9:07 PM 2 comments
Blogs..
Nobody ever reads my F*@,,G BLOG!!!
posted by MobBoss(TX) @ 8:42 PM 1 comments
About me:
Feel free to ask whatever you want ;)
My email address is mike_07201@yahoo.com
and the yahoo profile:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/mike_07201
and then again, that makes my yahoo/myspace IM: mike_07201
There's a "pattern" there. [sarcasm]
Everyone always asks when they it for the first time, so I have to mention the circumstances of my picture because that's one the first questions that everyone asks me, well I was hanging out with a few friends near my car one night and then they left for a little bit and said they would be back in 2 minutes..so i thought it would be funny to hide in the trunk and jump out when they come back to scare them....so i jump in my trunk and i close it....and when they come back....i try to open the trunk from the inside with the thin inside latch for the trunk, but it was jammed...and next thing i know..i can't get out...so i'm knocking on the trunk from the inside....and my friends are saying.."where the hell did mike go, and what the hell is that knocking?".....so then they open the trunk and see me inside...and they laugh their asses off,i guess the joke meant for them came on me.lol.they thought it was so funny, that they took a picture of me and I ended up liking the picture and keeping it.
Who I'd like to meet: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more day to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? How would anyone spend a day with a departed loved one? Responses to this can say lot about what we truly long for in life. Almost everyone would want to once again "tell them how much we loved them"-even though these were people we had loved our whole lives on Earth. Others, as well as myself, would have wanted to relive the little things. Even for those situations where the death may have been mysterious or questionable, one more day would make all those questions meaningless. Instead I'd like to spend it the way it always was. I would probably start off with a long hug, and simply go for a walk afterwards. Some might say, "that's such an ordinary day". Maybe that's the point. We often fantasize about a perfect day- something exotic and far away. But when it comes to those we miss, we desperately want one more familiar meal, even one more argument. What does this teach us? That the ordinary is precious. That the normal day is a treasure. Think about it. When you haven't seen a loved one in a long time, the first few hours of catching up feel like a gift, don't they? That's the gift we wish for when we can't catch up anymore. That feeling of connection. Departed loved ones truly are prisoners of our memories.
I love u and miss u so so munch and whish I can hold u and my arms and tell u how munch I love and u touching me all over me body. And I miss the way look at me. And the way you don't even look at women when were are togther. But I love your hreat of gold the most. But u are my ture love and always will me
Hey sweetie just bored and wanted to miss around on you myspace page can't sllep. But know this I love you the frist day we talked on the phone when I hread in your voice I knew I wanted you to me the guy that I spend the rest of my life with. But I am not sure if you fell the same way. I love your gf
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